By Sajjad Shaukat                                                                        In one of the bloodiest-ever terror attacks in Pakistan, Taliban militants mercilessly killed at least 141 people, including 132 children and nine staff members of the Army Public School and College in Peshawar, on December 16, this year. According to witnesses, the six militants went from classroom to classroom, shooti ...

By Zaheerul Hassan The topic of the article was suggested by my gloomy youngest daughter, Maidah. During my military service of Peshawar, she happened to be the class fellow of one martyred who was targeted along with 148 others in Army Public School by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on 16 December 2014. Many other students and staff members were having close association with my other daughters.  Nine sta ...

By Sajjad Shaukat While, the Constitution declares India to be a secular state, granting equal rights to the religious minorities, but in practice, ideology of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) prevails. Hindu politics and culture, dominated by the fundamentalists parties such as BJP, RSS, VHP, Shiv Sena and other similar groups have been propagating Hindutva agenda which enabled BJP hardliner, Narendra Modi to ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat 16th December is the day of tragic memory when Pakistan was dismembered and a new state of Bangladesh was created in 1971 as part of Indian conspiracy which still continues against the integration of Pakistan. India has a long-gone history of many centuries, based upon religious prejudice against the Muslims. In this respect, Indian intelligence agency, RAW which was founded in 1968, has ...

  سیّد نا صرر ضا کاظمی ہرسال دسمبر کے وسط میں محبِ وطن پاکستانیوں کا دِل زخموں سے نڈھال ہو جاتا ہے اُن کی آنکھوں سے لہو ٹپکنے لگتا ہے وہ کیسے بتا ئیں کسی پہلو اُنہیں قرار نہیں ملتا 16؍ دسمبر1997 کا یہی دِن تھا، جب اہلِ وطن کے لبوں پر عالمِ بے بسی میں بار بار ایک ہی سوال تھا کہ’یکایک پاکستان دولخت کیسے ہوگیا؟‘ کیا واقعی پاکستان ٹوٹ گیا؟ کرب واضطراب کے شکار ہر پاکستانی کی نظریں اُمید کی کوئی کر ن ڈھونڈتی پھر ...

وزیر اعلیٰ ڈاکٹر عبدالمالک بلوچ صوبے کے پہلے چیف منسٹر ہیں جو میر ے اور آپ کی طر ح ایک عام شہری ہیں ، مگر چندعناصر سے اُن کی سی ایم شپ ہضم نہیں ہو رہی ہے اور مخلوط حکومت میں ہوتے ہوئے بھی اُن کے خلاف سازشیں تیار کر رہے ہیں جو کہ افسوس ناک امر ہے۔ سی ایم شپ پشتونخواہ ملی عوامی پارٹی کی کاؤشوں سے وزیر اعلیٰ کو مینڈیٹ دیا گیا ہے پشتون خواہ پارٹی نے اپنی روایات پر قائم ہوکر میرٹ اور حالات کو ترجیح دیکر سرداروں ...

By Ali Sukhanver The Pakistani society is always blamed of having the blobs of terrorism, corruption, political instability and all type of lawlessness by the western and Indian media but a lot of thanks to God Almighty, this ‘lawless’ society is still very safe for the women. Though every year there are a few incidents of maltreatment with the women but the number of such incidents is such small that it be ...

 By Sajjad Shaukat                        22 years ago, Indian Constitution which claims India to be a secular state was torn into pieces when on December 6, 1992, a large crowd of Hindu Karsevaks (volunteers) entirely demolished the 16th-century Babri Masjid (mosque) in Ayodhya, Utter Pradesh in a preplanned attempt to reclaim the land known as RAM Janmabhoomi – birthplace of the god. The destruction of th ...